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May 18th 2025 Tornado Outbreak

Cheyenne County Kansas

In the graph below, the blue bars represent the number of tornadoes that occurred in Cheyenne County, Kansas. For example, three tornadoes were reported in 1962 and one tornado was reported in 2017. More information about the tornadoes occurring in each year is given in the table at the bottom of this page.

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The number of tornado days are shown in red. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, 14 tornadoes have occurred in May, as shown by the blue bar. The red bar shows that there have been 13 days where a tornado has occurred in May. This means that multiple tornadoes were reported on at least one day.

The following table is a list of the tornadoes that have occurred in Cheyenne County, Kansas. Length is the length of the tornado path measured in miles. The width of the tornado is measured in yards. An ‘M’ indicates that the data is missing. Scale indicates the F or EF rating a tornado was assigned. In the scale column, a letter without a number indicates that a scale value was not assigned. Locations listed in capital letters are county names, with upper and lower case being city names.

53 TORNADOES were reported in Cheyenne County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2024

Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	CHEYENNE	04/12/1941	21:30	F2	0	14	25	100
Pre-1950	CHEYENNE	05/20/1949	13:15	F3	0	1	30	400
Pre-1950	CHEYENNE	05/20/1949	15:30	F3	0	2	10	M
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	CHEYENNE	05/14/1951	19:30	F2	0	0	8.00	10
2	CHEYENNE	08/10/1951	18:30	F1	0	0	2.30	250
3	CHEYENNE	07/06/1952	16:30	F0	0	0	0.10	10
4	CHEYENNE	06/23/1956	15:55	F0	0	0	0.10	10
5	CHEYENNE	05/20/1957	11:10	F0	0	0	56.80	440
6	CHEYENNE	05/16/1962	15:00	F0	0	0	0.10	10
7	CHEYENNE	05/28/1962	15:30	F1	0	0	0.50	10
8	CHEYENNE	05/28/1962	16:30	F1	0	0	0.10	10
9	CHEYENNE	05/25/1965	19:10	F1	0	0	0.10	10
10	CHEYENNE	05/31/1971	17:30	F1	0	0	0.50	20
11	CHEYENNE	10/17/1971	23:15	F2	0	0	0.50	100
12	CHEYENNE	05/03/1977	19:15	F1	0	0	1.30	133
13	CHEYENNE	05/31/1984	16:55	F0	0	0	5.00	200
14	CHEYENNE	05/13/1990	18:27	F0	0	0	13.00	10
15	CHEYENNE	05/16/1991	14:18	F0	0	0	7.00	20
16	CHEYENNE	06/22/1993	19:15	F1	0	0	0.50	30
17	CHEYENNE	07/01/1993	19:10	F0	0	0	2.00	20
18	CHEYENNE	06/07/1994	19:08	F0	0	0	0.10	50
19	CHEYENNE	06/07/1994	18:55	F2	0	0	10.00	800
20	St. Francis	06/07/1994	19:32	F2	0	0	7.00	800
21	CHEYENNE	06/07/1994	19:45	F0	0	0	0.10	50
22	St. Francis	06/10/1994	16:05	F1	0	0	1.50	200
23	CHEYENNE	05/12/1995	15:45	F2	0	0	0.80	200
24	Wheeler	07/20/1995	19:21	F0	0	0	0.10	20
25	Wheeler	07/23/1996	13:30	F0	0	0	0.10	20
26	St Francis	06/23/1998	00:11	F0	0	0	0.10	20
27	Bird City	07/02/1999	18:50	F0	0	0	0.20	200
28	Bird City	06/29/2000	17:29	F1	0	0	2.50	650
29	St Francis	05/31/2001	17:50	F0	0	0	1.00	50
30	Wheeler	08/26/2002	15:35	F0	0	0	0.30	25
31	St Francis	07/06/2003	17:14	F0	0	0	0.30	25
32	St Francis	07/06/2003	18:05	F0	0	0	0.30	25
33	Bird City	07/21/2003	19:30	F0	0	0	0.30	25
34	Wheeler	06/26/2004	15:45	F0	0	0	0.20	25
35	Wheeler	06/26/2004	17:10	F0	0	0	0.30	50
36	St Francis	06/02/2005	20:35	F1	0	0	0.20	50
37	Bird City	03/28/2007	19:29	F2	0	0	27.00	700
38	Bird City	03/28/2007	19:49	F1	0	0	4.00	100
39	Bird City	03/28/2007	20:09	F1	0	0	15.00	440
40	Bird City	03/28/2007	21:24	F0	0	0	2.00	25
41	St Francis	06/01/2009	20:24	F0	0	0	0.25	25
42	St Francis	07/20/2009	18:03	F0	0	0	0.50	25
43	St Francis	08/09/2014	14:45	F0	0	0	0.5	10
44	Wheeler	08/09/2014	15:55	F0	0	0	0.25	10
45	Bird City	08/09/2014	15:55	F0	0	0	0.25	10
46	Bird City	07/21/2017	16:52	F0	0	0	0.01	400
47	St. Francis	06/08/2019	15:35	EFU	0	0	1.29	100
48	St. Francis	06/08/2019	15:45	EFU	0	0	1.12	100
49	Wheeler	08/11/2019	18:52	F1	0	0	1.23	175
50	Wheeler	03/14/2021	11:50	EFU	0	0	0.05	25
51	6.1 SW St. Francis	05/211/2023	11:57	F1	0	0	2.84	100
52	2.2 WNW Bird City	08/07/2023	15:35	EFU	0	0	0.24	75
53	9.0 SSW Bird City	04/25/2024	15:45	EFU	0	0	0.01	10

Totals

Total Tornado

EF-U

Updated: Jan 2025

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